Guidelines and Codes on the Participation of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities of the Convention on Biological Diversity: A Comparative Analysis Using Natural Language Processing

Abstract

5 Mo'otz kuxtal Voluntary Guidelines for the development of mechanisms, legislation or other appropriate initiatives to ensure the 'prior and informed consent', 'free, prior and informed consent' or 'approval and involvement', depending on national circumstances, of indigenous peoples and local communities for accessing their knowledge, innovations and practices, for fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of their knowledge, innovations and practices relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, and for reporting and preventing unlawful appropriation of traditional knowledge, CBD/COP/DEC/XIII/18, Annex, Montreal, (2016).

Promoting the Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Environmental Impact Assessment: Effectiveness of Akwé: Kon Guidelines in Finland

“…The Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) also gives indigenous and local communities the right to use natural resources for traditional purposes and grants them ownership of their traditional knowledge (Parks et al, 2019). The International Labour Organization's Convention (no.…”

Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance

“…In other words, COP decisions that do not refer to indigenous peoples and local communities at all are likely to be those that exclude them, and limit the discursive spaces for raising themes of local importance. Further research covering all the entirety of the texts of COP decisions is necessary to explore this point in proper detail (Parks, Peters and Lennan, 2019). In addition, the 'exclusion' category was only assigned to texts that failed to include indigenous peoples and local communities in some kind of participation in the CBD that was explicitly extended to other actors.…”

“…Though still at the very preliminary stages, some evidence about the language applied to industry actors is available. This evidence draws on research using an automated method of natural language processing which builds on the findings from the discourse analysis presented and its qualitative method for coding (see Parks, Peters and Lennan, 2019). 10 In this approach, the conceptual characterization associated with indigenous peoples and local communities in the COP decisions (including all of the texts of the decisions as opposed to the sample used in the analysis presented in this chapter) is contrasted with that connected to industry.…”